When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled.

Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted.

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

Keep your thoughts pure.

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?